Little White Lie
7.2
“Uncovering the truth hidden in plain sight: a journey through identity, family secrets, and self-discovery.”
Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different. At age of 18, she finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair.
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Cast
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Lacey Schwartz Delgado Director · Kathryn Bostic Composer James Adolphus Cinematographer
United States release November 21, 2014 · Produced in United States · Working title Outside the Box
Production
Truth Aid
Production
United States
Produced in
Outside the Box
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 29, 2014
Premiere · Woods Hole Film Festival, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
United States · November 21, 2014
Limited theatrical
United States · December 2, 2014
Digital · Wifey TV
United States
August 2, 2014 · Premiere · BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 3, 2014 · Premiere · Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco, California
August 19, 2014 · Premiere · Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
November 16, 2014 · Premiere · DOC NYC, New York
March 23, 2015 · TV · Independent Lens, PBS
March 31, 2015 · Digital · VOD
June 15, 2015 · Digital · Netflix
August 2, 2016 · Physical · DVD
Canada
September 27, 2014 · Premiere · Montreal International Black Film Festival, Quebec
France
February 26, 2021 · Digital · Prime Video
Germany
September 10, 2018 · Digital
Israel
December 23, 2014 · Premiere · Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
South Africa
July 17, 2017 · Digital · BET Afrcia
Taiwan
September 20, 2015 · Premiere · CNEX - Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Trinidad & Tobago
September 17, 2014 · Premiere · Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival
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